Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
French printer and inventor (1817–1879) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃ skɔt də maʁ.tɛ̃.vil]; 25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
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He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857.[1][2][3]